Tuesday, 10 February 2009

The human skulls and bones of Cambodian who die under Khmer Rouge regime

A Memorial Stupa located on the grounds of the Choeung Ek extermination camp is silhouetted at sunset in the outskirts of Phnom Penh February 9, 2009. The remains of nearly 9,000 people were exhumed in the 1980s from mass graves in this one-time orchard, also known as one of the 'The Killing Fields.' Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal has set February 17 as the start date for the trial of the first of five Khmer Rouge leaders blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people in the 1970s.REUTERS/Adrees Latif (CAMBODIA)

A Cambodian man giving foreigners a tour points his finger towards a skull struck by bamboo, as it sits amongst more than 8,000 skulls inside a Memorial Stupa located on the grounds of the Choeung Ek extermination camp in the outskirts of Phnom Penh February 9 2009. The remains of nearly 9,000 people were exhumed in the 1980s from mass graves in this one-time orchard, also known as one of the 'The Killing Fields.' Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal has set February 17 as the start date for the trial of the first of five Khmer Rouge leaders blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people in the 1970s.REUTERS/Adrees Latif (CAMBODIA)

A Cambodian man giving foreigners a tour grabs a skull as it sits amongst more than 8,000 inside a Memorial Stupa located on the grounds of the Choeung Ek extermination camp in the outskirts of Phnom Penh February 9 2009. The remains of nearly 9,000 people were exhumed in the 1980s from mass graves in this one-time orchard, also known as one of the 'The Killing Fields.' Cambodia's UN-backed genocide tribunal has set February 17 as the start date for the trial of the first of five Khmer Rouge leaders blamed for the deaths of 1.7 million people in the 1970s.REUTERS/Adrees Latif (CAMBODIA)

The human skulls and bones of Cambodian who die under Khmer Rouge regime are displayed in a stupa at Udong mountain in Kandal Province about 45 kilometers (27 miles) north of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Feb. 9, 2009. The U.N.-backed Khmer Rouge genocide tribunal is scheduled to conduct an initial hearing of Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, on Feb. 17, 2009 a former chief of Khmer Rouge largest torture facility (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

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